Crossword clues for swollen
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swell \Swell\, v. i. [imp. Swelled; p. p. Swelled or Swollen; p. pr. & vb. n. Swelling.] [AS. swellan; akin to D. zwellen, OS. & OHG. swellan, G. schwellen, Icel. svella, Sw. sv["a]lla.]
To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation.
To increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its banks; sounds swell or diminish.
To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as, in tempest, the ocean swells into waves.
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To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride.
You swell at the tartan, as the bull is said to do at scarlet.
--Sir W. Scott. To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell.
To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style.
To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle.
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To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
Your equal mind yet swells not into state.
--Dryden. To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand. ``Monarchs to behold the swelling scene!''
--Shak.To become larger in amount; as, many little debts added, swell to a great amount.
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To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to strut; to look big.
Here he comes, swelling like a turkey cock.
--Shak.
Swollen \Swoll"en\, p. p. of Swell.
Swollen \Swoll"en\, a. Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes; swollen streams.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., past participle adjective from strong conjugation of swell (v.); from Old English geswollen, past participle of swellan.
Wiktionary
distended v
(past participle of swell English)
WordNet
adj. abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh" [syn: bloated, distended, puffed, puffy, tumescent, tumid, turgid]
abnormally expanded or increased in size; (`swollen' is sometimes used in combination); "distended wineskins"; "the need to clean out swollen inventories"; "the raisins were plump and soft and swollen from being soaked"; "huge blood-swollen mosquitoes" [syn: distended]
characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes" [syn: conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen-headed, vain]
overfull with water; "swollen rivers and creeks" [syn: flooding, in flood(p), overflowing]
n. the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea [syn: crestless wave]
a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
a crescendo followed by a decrescendo
a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance [syn: dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, fashion plate, clotheshorse]
[also: swollen]
See swell
v. increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; "The music swelled to a crescendo"
become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son" [syn: puff up]
expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling" [syn: swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce]
as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things; "Strong emotions welled up"; "Smoke swelled from it" [syn: well up]
come up; "Tears well in her eyes" [syn: well]
cause to become swollen; "The water swells the wood"
[also: swollen]
Wikipedia
Swollen is the debut album of Hetch Hetchy, released in 1990 by Texas Hotel Records.
Usage examples of "swollen".
She was always so self-contained, so immaculate, so perfectly poised and turned out that his need to see her with her mouth swollen after love, her hair tangled by his fingers, her eyes languorous and heavy, her breathing quickened, sharp and desirous, was sometimes so great that he ached to reach out and take hold of her.
There were deep circles under his eyes, his skin was red and swollen from the acne that ran across it.
Her nipples had a lovely pouty shape, their areolas swollen though not erect.
The entire arm above the injury was badly swollen, but the hand was still normal size, although it looked shrunken and atrophic in comparison.
Still blindfolded, I fumbled with my swollen, numb fingers to find my cock.
The little girl looked up at Bonhomme, her swollen face wet with tears.
The bruised plant has been applied externally for healing ulcers, burns, whitlows, and for the mitigation of swollen piles.
High fever, swollen tongue, intoxication of the nervous system, buboes under the arms and in the groin.
The stumps looked swollen and he knew Jojo was eating painkillers like sweets, on top of his usual bucketful of alcohol a day.
Ricky followed him as he walked past the cattle pen and the cesspit, still brimming with its nauseous contents, swollen by the rains, to the barns where his father might have buried the family treasures to save them from marauders.
South Coquille grew more swollen with every mile they slogged, as streamlets joined in from the enclosing hills.
When Eny saw the big cuddlesome lump collapsed on her bed, crying night and day, her face swollen and ill-looking, scarcely able to speak for grief, her impulse might have been to shake the girl till her teeth bounced in her head.
Truth to tell, he was so dehydrated, his lips so swollen and cracked, his tongue such a useless slab of overcooked meat, that anyone else listening would have been able to discern nothing much beyond inarticulate grunts.
The strange immobility of his swollen cheeks denaturalized his broad, good face, all the features of which disappeared under the dead, bluish mask.
The chemical creates the disabling pathology that gives this stuff its name, a wet-looking, bleary, teary, swollen eyeball that can no longer focus--hence, Wet Eye.